Most peculiar - fast on one and not the other

[Jerry Cornelius]

Cutting a long story short: NTL broadband (1Mb) installed on Tuesday. Also installed Belkin wireless network. All fine initially, but seems that speeds much faster on laptop (using wi fi card) than on desktop (which has cable modem attached to it). If I use the desktop alone it starts off whizzing along in a very satisfactory way, then grinds to a sickening almost halt - reminiscent of the speeds I used to get with BT Gold (remember that, anyone?). Turn on laptop and everything is fine - so presumably low speed on desktop is due to a setting on that? If two people using internet - one on laptop and other on PC - laptop is fine while desktop virtually gives up.

Cleared temporary files etc. to no avail. Would be very grateful for your thoughts!

(Incidentally, the Belkin router is attached to desktop pc and to cable modem with ethernet cables. Belkin router uses USB connection to PC. This wasn't as set-out in the manual, but seems to work given that laptop is working well on broadband via wi-fi. But could this be the source of my problems?)
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Er, you probably want this:

TraceRoute to 212.58.240.111 [www.bbc.co.uk]

Hop(ms)(ms)(ms)
IP AddressHost name 1100
66.98.244.1gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1.net 2300
66.98.241.4gphou-66-98-241-4.ev1.net 3111
129.250.10.105ge-0-1-0-50.r00.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net 4464646
129.250.2.19p16-0-3-1.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net

I'm using Sygate personal firewall and no, I haven't spoken to customer support about this yet.

Using a USB connection will certainly slow things down.

[Jerry Cornelius]

Thanks for replying so quickly Paul - understand that ethernet is better, but surely the USB isn't what's causing the desktop to grind to a halt - simply freezes up on some sites (using both Explorer and Firefox) while the laptop which I'm currently using is fine.

[badnbusy]

TraceRoute to 212.58.240.111 [www.bbc.co.uk]

Hop(ms)(ms)(ms)
IP AddressHost name 1100
66.98.244.1gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1.net 2300
66.98.241.4gphou-66-98-241-4.ev1.net 3111
129.250.10.105ge-0-1-0-50.r00.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net 4464646
129.250.2.19p16-0-3-1.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net

That is the trace to BBC? Why is it going via Texas, USA??

Here is mine:

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms voyager.hhs.rochdale.sch.uk [172.16.46.2]
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms liberator.hhs.rochdale.sch.uk [172.16.20.1]
3 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 81.187.253.226
4 25 ms 24 ms 23 ms 81.187.187.42
5 25 ms 25 ms 32 ms hosting.aimless.aaisp.net.uk 81.187.187.2]
6 29 ms 28 ms 25 ms tmp.xchangepoint.net [217.79.161.123]
7 24 ms 28 ms 24 ms 212.58.238.133
8 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms www30.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.81]

Have you checked for spyware using AdAware and Spybot etc?

[paulyoung666]

hi and to the site , i reckon badnbusy could have something there , a bit of investigation required methinks

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by badnbusy

That is the trace to BBC? Why is it going via Texas, USA??

Here is mine:

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms voyager.hhs.rochdale.sch.uk [172.16.46.2]
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms liberator.hhs.rochdale.sch.uk [172.16.20.1]
3 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 81.187.253.226
4 25 ms 24 ms 23 ms 81.187.187.42
5 25 ms 25 ms 32 ms hosting.aimless.aaisp.net.uk 81.187.187.2]
6 29 ms 28 ms 25 ms tmp.xchangepoint.net [217.79.161.123]
7 24 ms 28 ms 24 ms 212.58.238.133
8 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms www30.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.81]

Have you checked for spyware using AdAware and Spybot etc?

Probably using trace route from a US website that is tracing from their servers not his system.

[Stu038]

Originally Posted by Jerry Cornelius

(Incidentally, the Belkin router is attached to desktop pc and to cable modem with ethernet cables. Belkin router uses USB connection to PC. This wasn't as set-out in the manual, but seems to work given that laptop is working well on broadband via wi-fi. But could this be the source of my problems?)

Why have you got both ethernet and usb connections from the router to the desktop or am I reading it wrong? you only need the one and ethernet is definitely the way to go.

What's the loading processor and memory wise in taskmanager when your surfing grinds to a halt, if your using usb it may be that something else is being given priority on your system.

[Jerry Cornelius]

What a helpful bunch you are! Many thanks - I'll try ethernet only connections and see if that solves it.

[DocDutch]

mate.

what kind of Belkin router you got??? as I dont know of any that have a USB connection.

the router I got from belkin I just plugged on the modem and done the setup on that (Dynamic and clone mac address) and I was flying with 2 pc's of which 1 is wireless.

so just use the belkin router and dont use Internet Connection Sharing which you most probably are using at the moment.